French-English translation for "ostentation"

 

"ostentation" English translation

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ostentation {noun}

ostentation {f} (also: prétention)

showiness {noun}

ostentation {noun}

ostentation {noun} (also: showiness)
 

Synonyms

Synonyms (French) for "ostentation":

Synonyms (English) for "ostentation":

 

Usage examples

Usage examples for "ostentation" in English

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qui sont pleins d'ostentation,

Those who want to be seen and noted (for their acts of worship),

Il doit éviter de faire preuve d'ostentation dans son train de vie et d'afficher une trop haute opinion de sa personne.

International civil servants should avoid an ostentatious lifestyle and any display of an inflated sense of personal importance.

Et ne soyez pas comme ceux qui sortirent de leurs demeures pour repousser la vérité et avec ostentation publique, obstruant le chemin d'Allah.

Be not like those (unbelievers) who went forth from their habitations swaggering boastfully and to show off to people, and bar (others) from God’s way.

Toutes les parties ont contribué à l'équilibre général et il semble qu'elles ne souhaitent pas se livrer à autre chose que des actes d'ostentation.

All parties have contributed to the overall equilibrium and appear reluctant to partake in anything other than acts of posturing.

On dit souvent - à mon sens faussement, exagérément, je dirais presque avec ostentation - que la présidence autrichienne n'était qu'une présidence de transition.

Some people seem to believe, wrongly in my view, arrogantly and I might almost say superciliously, that this was 'only ' an interim presidency.

Et lorsqu'ils se lèvent pour la Salat, ils se lèvent avec paresse et par ostentation envers les gens. ~~~ A peine invoquent-ils Allah.

When they rise to do the Prayer, they rise lazily, and to be seen by people (to show them that they are Muslims); and they do not remember God (within or outside the Prayer) save a little.

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